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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
As human life develops, construction and housing industry continues to occupy
the top list of priorities of modern communities planners. In many countries,
especially in developing countries, population increase in a rapid rate on small areas
of land, this make the vertical housing expanding of a high necessity. This project
introduce a sample design a multi-story building, trying to describe how a typical
multi-story building is designed in the Gaza Strip, how severe conditions such as wind
and earthquakes are resisted in the design of multi-story buildings, and how to
introduce a full engineering guide for workers in the field during project achievement.
1.2.2 Objectives
The aim could be achieved though following
1- Calculating the main loadings on a multi-story building.
2- Analyzing the structural elements of the building using various software
packages.
3- Designing all the relevant structural elements in the building using ACI
code .
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1.3 Methodology
The following methodology was followed in this project:
In this phase, all data needed for the success of the project were collected. Data
collected in this phase can de divided into two main categories:
Field data that describe the nature of the project, its architectural details, the
field data such as soil tests, the main components of the project and the
primary imagination of the suitable structural system to be used.
Technical data such as design requirements, loads expected methods, and
equations of design.
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ACI Code 318-14 was used for the design of all elements of the project and UBC 97
for analysis Earthquake loads and ASCE7-10 for wind loads.
In this project, many structural system types were chosen to resist different types of
loads, to achieve stability and design requirements.
The structural system types and their function were selected as following :
1. Basement Wall: was choose to resist soil pressure at some position for the
bedroom.
2. Raft (mat) footing: was choose to resist gravity loads (dead and live load) and
increase rigidity of the building.
3. Shear Walls structure: was choosing to resist lateral force, which is a very
adequate system for loading from structure to clay soil.
4. Beam-Column Frame was chosen to carry the floor loadings.
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